A Diet Free from GMO and GE foods and harmful chemicals.

A simple way to eliminate foods from you diet that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) foods, as well as fungicides, pesticides, herbicides and other harmful chemicals.

Rule 1:

Change slowly so that you don't get frustrated and think it is impossible. You must consider that all the foods that you consume now contain GMOs (or GE foods)  Remember that this change is life long commitment. Slow, small, constant changes are easier for your body, mind, taste preferences and budget to handle.  Try change one food a week. For example I would first start with your breakfast cereal and Tortilla chips.  They are easy to change. Lunch is the hardest to change if you eat out at a restaurants or eat packaged meals from the frozen food aisle at your grocery store. Lunch will take the longest.  Breakfast and dinner is the easiest since you probably eat at home.  Dinners at restaurants are the next hardest since you have few choices and you have to do a lot of research and talk to the owner and chef.  You won't be the first one to ask questions regarding GMOs.

 

Rule 2:

Assume that all restaurants and all prepared and processed packaged foods contain GMO foods.  Don't try to find out if the foods you are eating now have GMOs.  It will take forever. Change to brand that are researched by others.  Look up items that state non-GMOs from lists of links below.  The words like organic, natural, healthy, range free will confuse you. The labels must say 100% Organic or have a non-GMO label.  Each product must be researched by an independent sources and not by the company that makes the product. If it does not say " non GMO " is probably isn't.

1. List of  Non-GMO and GMO products
2. List of  Non-GMO Foods
3. List of  Non-GMO food companies and a list of brands
4. July 2013 largest list with printable Non-GMO brands
5. List of  Non-GMO retailers
6. List of  Non-GMO companies 
7. Non-GMO Shopping Guide in SPANISH
8. Whole foods market Non-GMO product list
9. Non-GMO Shopping Guide 
10. How to avoid GMOs in foods
11. Greenpeace shoppers guide to a Non-GMO diet
12. APPs to help avoid GMOs

Rule 3:

As you slowly change your eating lifestyle, you will find the certain foods are very hard to change.  Kick that food change down the road and start changing something else that might easier. Don't try to be perfect.  Listen to your body and especially your digestive system.  Do I feel comfortable. GMOs affect the digestive system. Once you change you will feel the difference.

Rule 4:

Eat organic heirloom wheat.  Remember all modern wheat has been modified in the 1970 by gene splicing.  Heirloom varieties of wheat are hard to find but many restaurants buy it.
Here is a list of AZ suppliers. It is hard to find bread without modern wheat.  I make my own with a bread machine.  Here is a list of local suppliers of Sonoran wheat flour.
Local suppliers of  Hayden flour mill products.

 

Rule 5:

Eat grass-fed 100 % organic, free range chicken, eggs, beef, pork
Eat only wild fish.
Here is a list of AZ  beef suppliers:

1. Topline foods.mail order and comparisons
2. Arizona Srv beef 
3. Date Creek Ranch in Wickenburg AZ 
4. Whole Foods
5. Sprouts Market
6. Call local butchers

Rule 6:      

Drink a substitute for milk and teas for soft drinks.  I like almond milk and I have my own special blend of teas and herbs. I use organic liquid stevia and honey from bee hives in the desert for a sweetener.

 

Rule 7:

Allow extra time every day for cooking unless you found a restaurant that you trust by talking to the cook and owner. You will not be the first one that asked them the question.

 

Rule 8 

Write your President, Congressman  and Senators about your situation and that you want to live without GMOs until they have been tested. Why should there be a patent rights on GMO foods.  I have no patent rights if I breed a better plant the traditional way.  Something is wrong here.

Sign the Pledge and download your boycott guide and poster

 Sign the Boycott Pledge of companies supporting NOT labeling GMOs

GMO boycott poster

 

GMO Genetically Modified Organism / Engineered Crops Information

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GMOs in agriculture:

Genetically modified (GM) foods were first approved for human consumption in the United States in 1995, and by 1999 almost 50 percent of the corn, cotton, and soybeans planted in the United States were GM. By the end of 2010, GM crops covered more than 9.8 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of land in 29 countries worldwide—one-tenth of the world’s farmland.

Potatoes, cotton, sugar beets and corn, that were endowed with a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, which produces a natural insecticide called Bt toxin. Studies of Bt cotton production in Arizona, U.S., demonstrated only small gains in yield—about 5 percent—with an estimated cost reduction of $25–65 (USD) per acre due to decreased pesticide applications. In China, a seven-year study of farms planting Bt cotton demonstrated initial success of the GM crop, with farmers who had planted Bt cotton reducing their pesticide use by 70 percent and increasing their earnings by 36 percent. However, after four years, the benefits of Bt cotton eroded as populations of insect pests other than bollworm increased, and farmers once again were forced to spray broad-spectrum pesticides. While the problem was not Bt-resistant bollworms, as had been feared initially, it nonetheless became clear that much more research was needed for communities to realize sustainable and environmentally responsible benefits from planting GM crops.
The independent studies regarding GMO food crops (not done by the Seed/Chemical corporations) have shown an alarming increase in health risks to humans. Bacillus thuringiensis has the unique property that it can transfer genes across species and is not naturally live in our human body.

Below are  6 of the most INFORMATIVE VIDEOS I have seen over the last few years.

GMO education goes mainstream on Dr. Oz 2014, but that is only part of the problem.

A short overview of the potential risks of GMO  by Thierry Vrain who retired 10 years ago after a long career as a soil biologist and ended head of a department of molecular biology running his own research program to engineer nematode resistance genes in crops.

GMO seeds are not the solution for this generation

A World View of  GMO crops

Farmers speak about GMO crops

2009 Nova / Frontline Documentary about GMOs on youtube part one of 12

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